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by gipp 11y ago
I think he was referring specifically to an unbounded uniform distribution, which is indeed not well-defined.
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by gipp 11y ago
This would _almost_ be a reasonable post if Python weren't mainstream and ubiquitous in the commercial space.
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by gipp 11y ago
We're not talking about an early-20th-century timber frame. This is a different material entirely. A two-second Google search puts actual numbers on this: https://fpinnovations.ca/media/factsheets/Documents&#x
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by gipp 11y ago
"The problem is convex" and "the algorithm is unlikely to get stuck in a local minimum on realistic problems" are very different things.
515.
by gipp 11y ago
This is definitely not the case for general neural networks, though.
516.
by gipp 11y ago
What more agreeable syntax could you possibly ask for?
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by gipp 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5zUa8tiGoo
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by gipp 11y ago
You're just describing unsupervised learning; these guys are far from the only ones working in the field, and this is far from the most impressive approach. This is just time-averaged kernel density estimation, with an approachable met
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by gipp 11y ago
I played C:S for a while at release, but quickly got to the point where everything but the traffic simulation aspect just felt really thin, gameplay-wise. Didn't really measure up to SC4 to me. Have patches/expansions/mods de
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by gipp 11y ago
Well, they offer liquidity. I keep one for emergency living expenses; there's no real advantage over leaving it in checking, I guess, other than as a unit of organization, to explicitly mark it as "emergency funds".
521.
by gipp 11y ago
Too many false positives. More like if re.search('\bcat\b')
522.
by gipp 11y ago
Not sure I agree; to be honest I miss old-style discussion boards, since they seem to have phased out in favor of Reddit-style aggregation and comments. I think there's a place for both, but the Reddit-style boards make every discuss
523.
by gipp 11y ago
Important and useful idea, but what a clunky explanation; way too much unnecessary jargon.
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by gipp 11y ago
Among other stuff, Let's Plays (basically an early version of what guys like TotalBiscuit or PewDiePie do on YouTube now) started on SA and got really popular across the Internet, leading to a huge influx of very different users that c
525.
by gipp 11y ago
Wouldn't they all look the same from the arrow's frame of reference? They're all locally flat. I guess the lines of curvature in e.g. the cylindrical geometry would look different.
526.
by gipp 11y ago
Dude, this is a site intended 100% for joke-based use. Don't worry about it.
527.
by gipp 11y ago
It's usually a bit more specific than that. Something like "Disguising an unfounded or ludicrous belief as science by using the right vocabulary, just in nonsense ways."
528.
by gipp 11y ago
There's nothing about the idea of physical consciousness that says it has to be a continuum -- there could just be some critical mass or qualitative attribute of brains that puts us "over the threshold", so to speak. Nobody
529.
by gipp 11y ago
There's no need to be so confrontational about this. Everyone agrees it is speculation; I think we need to have room for people to speculate and discuss speculation without being ridiculed about the fact that it's not fact (which
530.
by gipp 11y ago
I don't think anyone anywhere regards it as fact. It's completely speculative, and acknowledged as such in the book. The evidence laid out in the book is narratively compelling but totally circumstantial. For example, the way it s
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by gipp 11y ago
It would seem to be increasingly similar to each of those things in turn, not "none of the above".
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by gipp 11y ago
Capturing writing style with ngram-based input and individual-character input are very, very different tasks. That's several ballparks higher in difficulty. With ngrams, Markov models are perfectly sufficient. With individual charact
533.
by gipp 11y ago
Well, photons have plenty of energy and momentum ("plenty" at the atomic scale). Also I'm not sure if I'm interpreting your question wrong, but nothing actually physically moves in a CPU. "Gate" is just a met
534.
by gipp 11y ago
Actually, that particular hypothetical would happen at the speed of sound in marbles (plus some corrective factors due to the interfaces between the individual marbles). But your intuition about propagation vs drift velocity is correct.
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by gipp 11y ago
> Because the observables correspond to the reference frame of the observer and they exist in the complex Hilbert space, it must be concluded that, unlike reference frames in classical physics, quantum observables correspond to an observ
536.
by gipp 11y ago
Right, but the money paid into the system gets redistributed equally. So the poor get paid for their troubles, and under some probably hefty assumptions they show this leading to equilibrium.
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by gipp 11y ago
Read to the bottom -- it looks like the general idea here is to empower direct democracy. Less institutional power in the form of representational voting and beauraucratic/constitutional checks on each other means less attack surface f
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by gipp 12y ago
> Wat? Is this a thing in the US? If so, I'm incredibly happy I live in Sweden. Very much dependent on the company. For most, no, 40 hours is the standard and that's that. There's probably a skewed view here since early
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by gipp 12y ago
There's a tremendous amount of idealization involved there -- that the cost of renegotiation/finding a new job is zero (it's not), that no systematic effects outside the market exist lowering salaries (they do), etc. As an a
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by gipp 12y ago
It does not purport to be science; not really. It's supposition. That is not a knock against it. The existence and nature of consciousness, and its relationship to the computing and (perhaps) learning systems we now build, is a big ope

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